Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-28
EAVESDROPPINGS.
If One Of the Four Leading Candi-
dates Is to Be Elected 1t VIII Be
Either Reagan or Ireland,
Can Reagan Secure the Remaining
Seventeen Votes Necessary to Make
Him Maxey's Successor.
Again After Four or Five Ballots on
the HUrrah Plan.
A NIGHT OF CAUCUssING.

NiGhl Or SAN NOSSlNH
Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Ten. Jan. 2G.-SinCe the dis
solution of the iolnt session at l 80 this
afternoon, cRuCusses have been as prolific
in Austin as fiddleTs are represented to
be in the great tire-boX of eternity.
Knots of legislators and partisan wire
pullers can be seen in almost any secluded
spot in public resorts mapping olt pros
elyting plans to aid their chiefs in the
fight tomorrow. The contest, as seen
from surface indications, appears to be
not so much who sha | be elected as who
shall be defeated. The corporation ar
tillery is
TURNED ON REAGAN,
and if he can be defeated by either MaXev
or Ireland, well and good; if not by
them, then by almost anybody else. On
the other hand, the leaders of the outs
appear tc be determined to down the ms.
The Maxey forces of course represent the
ms, and everybody else is in some way or
other Identified either closely or remotely
with the outs. The drift of opposition
appears to be that MaXey has reached
high-water mark for this storm, and that
he will never poll heavier vote than the
forty-seven recorded for him yesterday in
the separate Houses, and duplicated to-
day on the second ballot Evidently if
any one of the avoWed candidates who
opened the ball is to be elected, it viii be
either Ireland or Reagan, with the chances
much the more favorable for
THE GREAT AMERICAN BATHER.
OF the combined votes cast against him
to-day, he has only to secure seventeen TO
win, as one Of his most ardent supporters,
Senator Allen Of Denton, why has been
absent st court in Dallas since the contest
opened, wires that he will be on hand to-
morrow. Can Reagan secure the other
seventeen, is the great Chinese puzzle OF
Austin politics tonight. His enthusiastic
supporters are positive that he can. His
tirmest opponents declare "never:" but
Ireland to win must get thirty votes from
MaXey's forty-four, a rather uphill and
rocky road tor the oX-cart statesman.
There is suspicion abroad in the politi-
Cal zephyrs that
A SLICK SCHEME
is being matUred by the Terrellites. 1t
may be that the mule of the brilliant
son of Travis has not been permanently
hobbled out. 1t is understood that he is
to prance into the arena after four or five
ballots more, if no choice is reached by
that time: and that Alexander Watkins
Terrell will come flying into the ring once
more with a whizz and buzz and an
avalanche of political spangles and
blue fire. When he was withdrawn to-
day his supporters divided up very
methodically and judiciously, that is
in a measure to make friendly feelings
with all the other candidates. Ten of
them went to Mr.. Reagan, five to Gov
ernor Ireland and the balance to Senator
MaXey and scattering. 1t is urged, and
with good reasoning, that he has
AN OLD GUARD
of twenty-five whom he can call
around him at any moment,
and who will stick to him on first, last
and gil the time term of service. There
are claimed TO be at least twenty to
twenty-five others who are Tor him As
second choice, wnen their own favortes
are done up. Then 1t is hoped to gam
much good Will from the Reaganites be-
cause Of similarity of sentiments Of the
two men and of the friendly turn per-
formed for Reagan to-day at the time of
withdrawal. If the proper time for Ter
rell to re-enter the contest arrives
THE PNEUMATIC TUBE PRINCIPLE
of politics is to be employed by his man
ayers. He is counted On to come wi b q
rush, hurrah, q high-pressure prOpul-
sion OF about forty five votes as starter.
If this number cannot be relied upon he
will notcOne at all.
Another movement was in4gUr2ted to-
night in Ireland's favor. Ogertures Wefe
made to secure peace with the Knights 81
Labor leaders, and richards friends
are claiming tonight large aCcessions
tomorrow from the Reagan ranks
and good squad of recruits from Max
ey's camp. The Knights of Labor story
is not alarming the Reaganites. Every
body believes that early in the action Ire
land will pass Maxey and take second
place, but no conservative, disinterested
observer of events believes he will over
take Reagan. This is the situation to-
night, and all other speculation would be
q waste OF words.
NOTES.
John Young Gooch is heeling and
handling phalanx OF the Reagan forces.
He sees hopes of promotion to the seat
his chief now occupies.
representative Faubion of Williamson
county voting for Seth Shepherd present
ed picture of loves labor lost.
Tee siXty-six votes cast against al rail-
road propositions in the house on the
anti-free pass bill, is not cheering pic
ture for railway attorney to look at in
q senatorial contest.
Silas Hare, hevenerable Congressman
elect from the Fifth district, is here. He
says he is sitter a pardon for Pete Var
borough, the Grayson county arsorist
1t is regarded as singular that
the Judge failed 10 discover that Pete de-
sired pardon till the senatorial furnace
was at white heat. There is Circumstan- |
.ial evidence that dark horse senatorial |